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What is Geoffrey Chaucer's influence on English and English literature?

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Posted by angelakitty on December 22, 2008 at 10:12 PM and tagged with chaucer, english, english literature, geoffrey chaucer, influence, metrical, versification

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This is a huge question - and people have written whole books in order to answer it. I can provide you with the main points though:

  • Chaucer considerably expanded the word-stock of...

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Posted by robertwilliam on December 23, 2008 at 5:28 AM

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